PartyBlog

This website is dedicated to the party. This is not simply about partying. It is everything that is the party. Why we choose to party? What happens at the party? The zen-like realizations at the party. The out-of-body experiences at the party. The life of the party. There is a society of people, factionalized, marginalized, and dehumanized, who are dedicated to partying. It may be your co-worker, boss, or mail-room staff; they go by many names – the Lizard People, sybarites, extra-terrestrials, party people, wookies, hipsters, hippies, and crunk-heads. They understand that partying, socializing, interacting with others: these are the most essential of human impulses. This ethos is followed by millions around the world, yet has been ignored and stifled by academics and media for too long. The informational superhighway called the internet welcomes those that seek to document the ways of the party. Now is the time to party together! For those whom partying, socializing, and peacefully engaging with one another are the most fundamental of human emotion – UNITE – under one common boomskull…

Life lacks meaning, as a Taoist would say. There is no purpose other than being. For those in whom the party lives, partying is their valid life goal. Some live for money, some live for power, and some live to party. Ignore for a moment that partying, in its purest form, involves no war, no harm, and no physical injury. Those who love to party love it not for those reasons, they love it organically as it is intrinsic within their nature.

The big bang occurred billions of years ago, in an ordered fashion, leading to life on Earth as we know it, and likely other distant planets as well. It set in motion an inevitable course of events, bringing you to Earth, in this form of matter, at this very exact moment. Through a strange twist of fate, sex, and timing, BOOM you arrive by pure, perfectly ordered randomness, naked, cold, screaming, in a world where the birth process itself is a dangerous proposition. Many are born into poverty. Few are born into status. Others enjoy a certain gambler’s quality that succeeds in capitalism.

The big bang occurred billions of years ago, in an ordered fashion, leading to life on Earth as we know it, and likely other distant planets as well. It set in motion an inevitable course of events, bringing you to Earth, in this form of matter, at this very exact moment. Through a strange twist of fate, sex, and timing, BOOM you arrive by pure, perfectly ordered randomness, naked, cold, screaming, into a world where even the birth process is a dangerous proposition. Some individuals are engrained with a psyche unacceptable in modern society, or their “the fall” so horrifying so as to engage in thinking that lacks of conformity, is broadly misunderstood, or causes impulses destructive in the aggregate. These forms are shunned, institutionalized, or imprisoned through no fault other than birth or nurturing. Many are born into poverty. Few are born into status. Others enjoy a certain gambler’s quality that succeeds in capitalism. From birth, humans belong to different castes and systems, through no fault of their own.

From birth, humans belong to different castes and systems, through no fault of their own. Some individuals are engrained with a psyche unacceptable in modern society, or the “the fall” is so great or horrifying that its breaks one’s conformity of thought and one becomes broadly misunderstood, or destructive within society. These forms are shunned, ostracized, institutionalized, or imprisoned through no fault other than birth or upbringing.

Partying, on the other hand, is a calling that involves the mutual expression of the human form, uniting classes and races peacefully, in a single, fluid Jones. Partying is indubitably one of the most essential of human impulses, for its freedom of expression and social utility. Too often, however, partying is shunned as detrimental and morally vacant. If you are of the naysayer – I challenge ye – answer the following – what bereft results flow from the party itself?

And ye cannot answer, for there is none…

When work is done – do you party?

If the world ends tomorrow – will you party tonight?

Were today your last day on Earth – would you choose party?

If the answer is yes? Then join me…

With every tick of the clock, this particular form comes closer to its End. Therefore, with every available moment moving forward, I say, party and bring others into the fold. There is no greater objective in life. This is the party epiphany…

My party epiphany occurred in the days following Mardi Gras, 2010 AD. The Friday following Mardi Gras Club LaRoxxy, a superior party club in a superior party city, Philadelphia, PA, hosted a Mardi Gras party and in the aftermath my life has never been the same.

My companion that evening was Big J, a fellow seeker I’d met in graduate school, with large hair, a large voice, a large stomach, and a large desire to party. This impulse to party for the truth inexorably links our souls in friendship. (Continue on to “The Party Epiphany — Club La Roxxy’s Mardi Gras Party 2010”)